Just in time for National School Bus Safety Week, the North Carolina State Fair hosts a Wake County school bus to showcase safety features and the importance of protecting students who ride the bus.
PHOTOS: Fair Day for Bus Safety in North Carolina
The exhibit includes images of school bus evolution.
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Visitors got a glimpse of safety features, as well as cautionary videos, activity workbooks for children, and recruitment brochures for a virtual school bus driver course.
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Marybeth Kubinski, a bus safety specialist from Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools, gave tours of the bus safety exhibit at the state fair.
"It is so important for people to learn about school bus safety because it's the most used type of transportation that students use to get to/from school," she said.
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The seats inside this Wake County school bus represent different eras of pupil transportation, from past to present.
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North Carolina, no stranger to the nationwide school bus driver shortage, used the exhibit to push for new drivers.
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Visitors gather for a chance to climb aboard the exhibit.
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